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Curriculum vitae and publication list for Xinyuan Cheng.
Contact Information
| Name | Xinyuan Cheng |
| Xinyuan.Cheng@campus.lmu.de |
Experience
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2026 - present Munich, Germany
Scientific Programmer
Munich AI & NLP (MaiNLP), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Developing an open-source, research-oriented toolkit for HLV, including model training, evaluation, and experimental analysis pipelines.
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2025 - 2025 Munich, Germany
Research Assistant
Munich AI & NLP (MaiNLP), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Contributed to the Premise and PyPremise projects, worked on code development, added tutorials, and improved cross-platform support. Led an empirical study on the meta-evaluation of RAG metrics to benchmark reliability and alignment with human judgments.
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2023 - 2024 Shanghai, China
Research Assistant
Computational Linguistics Lab, School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Contributed to SwordsmanImp, a Chinese conversational implicature benchmark, with a focus on evaluation dataset construction. Assisted in the ArguGPT project through syntactic and linguistic analysis of GPT-generated argumentative essays.
Publications
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2026 Reasoning that travels: Dissecting how chain-of-thought transfers across models
arXiv preprint
Under review for EMNLP 2026.
Skills
Natural Languages (Fluent): Mandarin Chinese (Native), English (Fluent), German (Fluent)
Programming Languages (Proficient): Python, Bash
Deep Learning (Proficient): PyTorch, vLLM, Hugging Face Transformers, NumPy, scikit-learn
Tools (Proficient): LaTeX, PyCharm, Linux, Jupyter Notebook, VS Code, Git
Education
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2024 - present Munich, Germany
M.Sc.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Computational Linguistics and Informatics
- Master’s student
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2020 - 2024 Shanghai, China
B.A.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
German Linguistics
- {“Thesis title”=>”The evaluation of large language models with regard to the ambiguity recognition of the word "wieder".”}
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2022 - 2023 Munich, Germany
Exchange
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen
Computational Linguistics